Hi all, please CC me on any responses, I'm not subscribed to debian-devel. Has anyone considered patching the screenshot tools of GNOME or KDE to include support for automating the process of submitting to screenshots.debian.org? It would almost certainly cause a big increase in the number of submissions.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 11:45 PM, Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> wrote: > The news are collected on http://wiki.debian.org/DeveloperNews > Please contribute short news about your work/plans/subproject. > > In this issue: > + Screenshots on packages.d.o > + BTS version tracking explained > + Latest features of dpkg-dev > + Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database > + Re-evaluate the state of backported packages > > Screenshots on packages.d.o > --------------------------- > > You may have noticed that packages.d.o now includes screenshots[1] > with a link to a the Debian screenshots site[2]. Where a screenshot > isn't available a "No screenshot available" image invites users > to submit screenshots. Any one can easily contribute[3] and after > approval your screenshots will be available on the web[4] and on > packages.d.o[5], synaptic[6], aptitude-gtk[7], software-center[8] and, > via games-thumbnails[9], goplay[10]. The Debian screenshots site has > been running for almost 2 years[11] and has accumulated over 2200 > screenshots for 1700 packages[12] but still lacks screenshots for > many packages[13] so why not upload screenshots today? The screenshot > meta-data is available via JSON (1[14], 2[15]) and UDD[16]. If you > would like to work on debshots[17], the software behind the Debian > screenshots site, please check out the git repository and send Christoph > Haas some patches. There are improvements to be made[17], especially > around integration with packages.d.o. > > -- Paul Wise > > [1] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/packages-screenshots.html > [2] http://screenshots.debian.net/ > [3] http://screenshots.debian.net/upload > [4] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages > [5] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/packages-screenshots.html > [6] http://blog.workaround.org/2008/11/14/screenshotsdebiannet-goes-live/ > [7] http://packages.debian.org/sid/aptitude-gtk > [8] http://packages.debian.org/sid/software-center > [9] http://bugs.debian.org/589928 > [10] http://packages.debian.org/sid/goplay > [11] http://blog.workaround.org/2008/11/10/screenshotsdebiannet-goes-beta/ > [12] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages > [13] http://screenshots.debian.net/packages/without_screenshots > [14] http://screenshots.debian.net/json/packages > [15] http://screenshots.debian.net/json/screenshots > [16] http://udd.debian.org/schema/udd.html#public.table.screenshots > [17] http://debshots.workaround.org/trac/ > [18] http://debshots.workaround.org/trac/report/1 > > BTS version tracking explained > ------------------------------ > > There still seems to be a lot of confusion on how the version tracking in > the BTS works. I wrote a lengthy blog entry[19] which explains why some > bugs won't get archived even though they got closed a while ago already. > > -- Gerfried Fuchs > > [19] http://rhonda.deb.at/blog/debian/on-BTS-usage.html > > Latest features of dpkg-dev > --------------------------- > > Raphaël Hertzog has been blogging about the latest features of > dpkg-dev[20]. He also gave a talk at the recent MiniDebConf in Paris, > France (slides at [21]). His blog posts and talk covered several areas, > including the new source package formats, source package build options, > the maintainer scripts helper, vendor differentiation support (patches, > build rules), symbols files for libraries, build flag customisation and > more. > > -- Paul Wise > > [20] > http://raphaelhertzog.com/2010/10/30/latest-features-of-dpkg-dev-debian-packaging-tools/ > [21] http://raphaelhertzog.com/files/2010/10/latest-dpkg-dev-features.pdf > > Searching for bugs using Ultimate Debian Database > ------------------------------------------------- > > There's a new web interface[22] for the Ultimate Debian Database that > provides a multi-criteria search engine for bugs (including RC bugs). > > -- Lucas Nussbaum > > [22] http://udd.debian.org/bugs.cgi > > Re-evaluate the state of backported packages > -------------------------------------------- > > I've sent out a call for re-evaluating the state of backported > packages[23]. If the reason to stick behind the squeeze version for a > backport isn't valid anymore it might be a good idea to get the packages > in sync again to make potential security and point release updates > easier. > > -- Gerfried Fuchs > > [23] http://lists.debian.org/debian-backports/2010/11/msg00008.html > > -- > bye, > pabs > > http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/aanlktim3-wisi9gh8a71n+a=kctqve=5u81n85ae1...@mail.gmail.com
